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General Category => Amateur Radio => Topic started by: Fansome on June 19, 2019, 2003 UTC
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All Hams: get to Huntsville, Alabama August 17 & 18, 2019
[www.hamfest.org]
Huntsville Hamfest 2019
World Class Educational Forums
License Exams both days
Outstanding Youth Lounge
Over 50 Commercial Vendors
384 Flea Market Tables Air-conditioned, all indoors
DX Banquet
Covered Parking
DX Card Checking
Hospitality Suite
YL Breakfast
Major Door Prizes on Saturday and Sunday
Plus hourly Door Prizes both days
Live Streaming by W5KUB
Talk-In on 146.94+ PL 100Hz
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What's a YL Breakfast?
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Promise not to steal that moon rocket at the Interstate rest stop before you get off for Huntsville, Al. They let the kiddies play in it. They don't need you blasting off in search of your long lost Tesla coupe.
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It is one of the best in the region. While your in town, do the space and rocket center too, lots of neat stuff to see.
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I assume YL breakfast is for women attending and their husbands possibly
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If you look to your left as you enter Alabama southbound from Tennessee on I-65 you'll see the famous "Booby Hatch" bar and dancing parlor where YL's do the ol' bump and grind. On the other side of I-65 is a cafe and truckstop. If you go to the latter tell 'em Pigmeat say's "Hey!". It's been a long time.
Al, aren't you afraid Col. Sartorius Snopes will cross into Alabama to seek revenge over that mass outbreak of food poisoning your "Catfish On A Stick" stand caused at the last World Iron Shooting Championships held at his place in Mississippi? It's not far from his place to Huntsville.
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Any interest in an impromptu HFU gathering during the hamfest? I see several HFU members
who seem to live in the Huntsville / North AL area and the hamfest draws people from
all around. I haven't lived in "Huntspatch" since '83 but did maintain my HARC membership
for several years after.
Perhaps we could try to commandeer one of the tables in the main hall outside the hamfest entrance?
Any interest? Preferred time? Location? Suggestions? Whatever?
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The town has a fair number of microbrew pub/restaurant things reasonably close to the convention center. There is also a killer BBQ place off Memorial called Gibsons.
I'm game...
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RH,
I've never been to Gibson's on south Parkway but back in the day, we would sometimes
go to a BBQ place, I *think* it was a Gibson's, on either Athens Highway or maybe Wall-Triana;
I was working in Research Park at the time and the area was NOTHING like it is now so that
was reasonably cquick. Of course, I also used to go for Saturday morning bicycle rides "out in the country"
which is now the burbs.
Not much response to this as yet but we are still a month out from the hamfest.
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I did run into a 'closeted' HFU user at the fest a few years back (He was a lurker and couldn't remember his handle). The fest is a good one. There are a lot of people selling stuff related to aerospace and microwave. Prof saw a guy some years back selling tiles off the spaceshuttle.
Should be fun.
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The last time I was in that neck of the woods I was coming back from Houston. I got a motel room in Cullman just in time to watch the last couple of hours of "O.J. And Al's Wild Ride". I'd been hearing bits of it on the radio through the day, but when I saw it on TV after checking in, I was floored.
Why the cops didn't throw a spike strip across the highway and shoot our gun waving, melon-headed, ex- football hero still perplexes me?
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T minus 6 days..anyone still in?
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RH,
Yes, I'm still planning to attend. I just went to https://hamfest.org/
and clicked the "Program Guide 2019 **Revised **" button to d/l
the latest version. I'm looking on p. 13 of that guide and I suggest that
any HFU folks who would like to get together, let's plan to meet at 1130 CDT,
at the elevators near the Hamfest Registration. Then we can move some place
else if need be. I *think* there's a seating area nearby - if memory serves me right.
***If that's not a good time / place for anyone, I'm open to any other suggestions
anyone would like to make.***
I'll be the old codger in jeans and most likely a white Radio Free Whatever
Bunker t-shirt.
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Friday or Saturday? I would guess we'd have a better turnout on Saturday.
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Ooopps, thanks, RH. I meant on Saturday. That's what I get for "assume"-ing! :)
BTW: I don't think the hamfest is open at 1130 on Friday.
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RH will you be moderating the Pirate Radio forum???
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If they had one I would consider it!
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Lol that'd be ossum, sadly ossum and HAM radio are almost mutual exclusives.
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That stretch of Interstate between Meridian, MS. and Birmingham is where armadillos go to die. I've never seen anything like it and I lived in East Texas for nearly a decade.
If you're ever down for the 'fest, drive about 45 minutes southwest to the town of Moundville and the Archaeological Park. It's well worth the trip. So is Etowah in GA. Both cities rolled out a rain of spears and arrows on de Soto's 1540-1542 "Death March" through the South. (Sherman had nothing but better cannon and firearms.) De Soto's men and animals brought diseases the locals had never been exposed to. Killed about 90% of the population in the New World w/o getting within miles of them. The Old World diseases traveled along traditional trade routes to places Europeans wouldn't see for another couple of hundred years, killing hundreds of thousands. Jesus, what a slaughter!